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Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world. — Eric Hoffer
A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. — Edgar Allan Poe
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to… — David Lloyd George
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution… — Richard Dawkins
It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too… — Dalai Lama
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does. — Kenneth Tynan
I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while,… — Claude Monet
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become… — Joseph Joubert
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand. — John Jay Chapman
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but… — David Hockney
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use. — Chogyam Trungpa
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. — Charles Ives
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy. — Sidney Lumet
Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will. — Ludwig von Mises
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the… — Joshua Reynolds
When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms… — Sathya Sai Baba
The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this… — Sathya Sai Baba
When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the… — Aung San Suu Kyi
But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and… — Damien Hirst
I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff. — Damien Hirst
I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself. — Tracey Emin
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in… — Nathaniel Branden
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity,… — Rollo May
What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the… — John Ashbery

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